The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-03-17
FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
TAXING WHEAT IsfPoRrs.

PARIS, March I0.-The Chamber of
Deputies to-day. by a vote of 1913
against 23s, approved the bill imposing
a duty of francs per kiloS on wheat
imports.
GAMBLING PROHIBITED.
At the Autiere races to-day the pO-
lice stopped betting by the book-makers.
THE BRITISH NAVAL SCANDAL.
LONDON. March 10.-Lord George
Hamilton First Lord of the Admiralty
replying in the House of Commons
this evening to questions with reference
to the disInissals of the draughtsman,
Terry, for selling naval secrets, said
that in the interest of the public it was
not desirable to reveal the nature of
the person who obtained information
or the subject for which it was bought.
He was unable to state whether Terry
could be indicted for perjury or not.
NO CAUSE FOR COMPLAINT.
In the House of Commons this even
ing Sir John Furguson, Under Foreign
Secretary, said that the Government
had caused inquiries to be made in Bull
garia with reference to the reports that
the political prisoners had been NAL
treated, and it had been learned from
officials in Sofia, who had visited the
prisoners, that the latter had no COM
plants about their treatment.
GLADSTONE TO LEAD.
LONDON, March l0.-Mr Gladstone
has informed his party that he himself
will lead the opposition to the Coercion
Bill in Parliament. The Liberals will
continue their efforts against the bill,
maintaining in the meantime active
agitation throughout the country.
BULLER CREATES SENSATION.
A sensation has been caused by the
publication of General Sir Redver
Buffers evidence before the Land Com
| mission. 1t appears that General Bull
Ter testified that what law there was in
the counties, Kerry, Clare and
Cork, was on the side of the
opinion that it would be serious mat
| ter with their grievances unredressed,
| to attempt to suppress by force the ten
ants right to openly associate for the
| protection of their interests. A ma
| jority of the tenants, he said, struggled
| to pay their rents and where they could
| did pay; but in many cases the rents
were too high and such tenants could
| not pay. He said there would never
| be peace in Ireland until there had
been established court having strong
| coercive powers over bad landholders
| and protective powers over poor tenants.
| The Pail Mall Gazette declares that the
facts attested by General Butler come
| like a fash of vivid lightning revealing
/ the naked horrors OF ag0nlZe0 injustice
/ in Ireland. 1t says no crime which the
moonlighteTs or dynamiterS can COM
NIT will be comparable to the Grimm
atty of giving another days grace to
| the foul fabric of legalized wrong
erected on Irish sofia fabric which
| the torch now seeks TO redress by
| further misdeeds.
! THE NIGHTINGALE MARRIED..
| PARIS, March 10.-Christine Nilsson
| has been married 70 Count Miranda
and 1t is reported she will retire from
the lyric stage.
FATAL EXPLOSION.
/ An explosion of melinite, new ex.
plosive, occurred to-day in the arsena
at Belfort, and many men were killed
or injured.
THE STANLEY EXPEDITIONS.
/ CAPETOwN. March 10.-The Stanle!
expedition for the relief Emin Bey
which left Zanzibar about two week
ago. arrived here last evening. 1t VII
proceed to-day to the Congo river, ant
Stanley says he viii get there by tn
| 18th inst, three days earlier than h
/ had expected to. The men composing
SECURED BY RUSSIA.
: LONDON. March 1.-THE Telegraph
{ asserts that the admiralty has trust
worthy information that the Russia
0 government has received and now IA
E drawings and papers connected wit
the British naval designs which WEI